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Rain Man

This is my hubby. We met through a dating service. He was my 11th match. I was his 1st. I continued to date people after we met....he didn't. We don't really make sense "on paper", but we make perfect sense in real life!

D-man

D-Man

This is my first born. He is funny, smart, sarcastic and obsessed with baseball. He loves UGA and will graduate spring of 2020 with a degree in Economics and Political Science (with a minor in German)

A-Girl

A-Girl is my oldest girl, my first C-Section and likes a lot of the same things I do. She attends a small Christian university in North Georgia and is on a golf/academic scholarship. She is smart, sweet, talented and super funny.

L-Girl

L-Girl is my second girl. She is full of energy and ideas and is a lot of fun. She is super dedicated and an incredibly hard worker. She will graduate from high school in the spring of 2020 and will be heading to UGA as an Exercise Science major. I used to say she was just like her dad....but the older she gets to is becoming more like me (don't tell her!)

A-Man

This young man is not easily forgotten by anyone who meets him. He has lots and lots and lots of energy and lots and lots and lots of ideas of things to try and just see what happens. Usually the results get him and trouble and then Mom and Dad laugh behind closed doors. (I wrote that description when he was about 5 - and it still applies!) The taller version of him is still super funny and smart. He is also an incredibly gifted athlete and musician.

S-Girl

This young lady is always thinking and planning for the future. She has already started her own business (she actually has a few successful side gigs) and has even competed on a televised baking competition. She is a super dedicated student and is truly friends with all her siblings due to her sweet and thoughtful nature. Plus, their favorite thing to do is to get her laughing - because it is contagious and once she starts, she cannot stop.

V-Girl

This is my baby. She has been walking since 9 months and has been a lot of fun and trouble ever since. (I wrote that 10 years ago and it still applies) She has been striving to keep up with ALL her siblings since day one. She is determined to be just as good if not better than all of them....at everything! She is clever and quick on her feet, and is the best most thoughtful gift giver I have ever seen. She is fearless for the big stuff and timid for the small stuff. It is a super fun and interesting mix.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

We got the chance for another "super" product to review! Super Teacher Worksheets is just what is says.....worksheets....that make you feel like a super teacher. Ha!

Seriously. This was a fantastic product for us. Fantastic, I said.

So, in a nutshell, you become a member of this website for $19.95 a year - for an individual membership. Oh and by the way, it is a calendar year, so 365 days of access. So, I will do the math for you - it ends up being like 5 cents a day! Once you have become a member you have access to over 10,000 worksheet pages.

Magical, I tell you.

This is one of those products that is fantastic for homeschoolers and public schoolers alike. And, really, really good for the parents of those kids.

Through this membership, you have access to worksheets from Pre-K up to grade 5 right now. Looks like they are adding in a few things for the older kids, but, for now it is primarily for the early elementary ages.

So, I used this for V-girl (Grade 1), S-Girl, (Grade 3), and A-man (Grade 5).

I would say that I didn't primarily use these for extra school work, at home, although I did do that too. But, what I did the most of is them for activity sheets when we were out and about at doctor's appointments and things like that.

For example, A-girl takes golf lessons (shooting for that ever elusive golf scholarship). The place that she takes lessons gives us 50% off of ala carte menu items. We'd had a particularly hectic and busy week, so Rainman and I decided that the kids and I all deserved a treat and would go eat lunch when A-girl went for her lessons.

So, that morning, I logged onto my Super Teacher Worksheet page and skimmed through my options. There were word finds, crossword puzzles, coloring pages, math pages that were coloring pages that revealed a secret picture, state information pages and holiday special pages. (Seriously, that is just a small sampling of your options).

Anyway, I logged on and picked a few things for each of the kids. I actually think I found a few for L-girl to try too (who is in 8th grade).

I am sure when the restaurant staff saw the 6 of us troop in, in the middle of the day, on a school day, they were nervous. It is a nice, golf course restaurant with glass glasses already waiting on the table. But, they didn't need to be. We sat down, we figured out what we were going to order off the menu (snuck in a little math lesson to figure out what 50% off would be of all of our choices) and I distributed the Super Teacher Worksheets that I had printed off. And, that was that. We were there for a total of about 2 hours and there were no problems or reasons for us to get asked to leave or anything! Ha!

No, the kids weren't silent. There were discussions about how to do problems, and guesses on what the secret picture would turn out to be. Requests for a red or blue crayon. Even a big sister reminding a little sister how to borrow when doing subtraction. A mom helping correct a graph coordinate mistake so the picture would actually look like a sail boat and not some random thing.

And, get this, it was relaxing for me. It was amazing. Plus, I got a great burger for half price!

The thing with the Super Teacher Worksheets is that they are not just the usual drill the information into your head kind of worksheets with row after row of problems. Granted, they do have those kinds too, if you want them. But, the ones I had chosen all had a fun, interesting twist.

It is hard to explain because, in the end, they are still.....worksheets.

They were still doing extra math, or working on spelling, but, my kids always looked forward to doing them. Whenever I announced that I had printed some off to take with us, I was met with choruses of "Yay!"

Seriously.

How often can you say that about anything school related? I mean, yes, we are homeschool nerds, but my children are still...children.....and school, much of the time, elicits eye rolls and groans.

Just this past week 2 of my big kids had eye doctor appointments. We all went. Again, I am sure when the staff saw all of us troop in (and take up all but 1 chair in their waiting room) they were nervous that there was going to be damage to the waiting room by the time we left. But, I pulled out their Super Teacher Worksheets and they worked on those. All good.

But, I guess the Super Teacher Worksheets aren't just about fun and games either.

S-girl has been struggling with subtraction when she has to borrow. For some reason, that has just not clicked in her brain. So, math was ending up with tears, especially on the days where she "thought" she had gotten it right, but when we corrected it, she hadn't and she had to go back and redo everything. So frustrating for her...and for us.

So, I logged into Super Teacher Worksheets and searched the subtraction section for problems with borrowing (FYI - you can also find subtraction with no borrowing). I looked for the worksheets that had something fun to them and printed those off. She especially likes the ones that reveal a secret message or picture. So, yes, she is doing extra work for subtraction, but it isn't entirely painful and I can see her frustration is decreasing and she is starting to "get it".

One of the other things I liked, that did require a little bit of extra effort on my part, but was totally worth it, was using the Work Sheet Generator section.....specifically the word find generator. I could take their spelling and vocabulary words for the week, and create a word find that was personalized to them. I could even sneak in a few words not on their list, just for fun. (Mom.....loves.....you)

Another feature that I LOVED about Super Teacher Worksheets is the fact that there are answer keys. No, you don't always need them because they are easy enough to figure out on your own, but sometimes, your brain doesn't want to have to think,so having the option to print off answer keys is awesome! If you don't want to waste paper, all you have to do when you print is tell your printer just to print page 1, not "All".

I don't want to bore you with explaining how all the worksheets worked or were laid out.....and really, there are too many for me to even begin covering them all.

Suffice it to say that this ended up as one of my favorite review products of all time. Fun and practical.

The worksheets on the log in page are divided by categories, but you could also do a straight search if there was something you were looking for. The categories in which there are worksheets are as follows:

I realize that it is a little strange to be this excited about a worksheet membership site, but it is really awesome. We used it.....a lot. The kids liked it. It was fun for me to search around on the site for something I knew the kids would like. It was fun for me to present their worksheets like they had won a prize or something. Crazy, but true.

SYLVIA SUBTRACTION PROBLEMS......ABILITY TO PRINT ANSWER KEYS...OR NOT....IF YOU REMEMBER......WORD SEARCH GENERATOR - FOR SPELLING WORDS...YES, REQUIRES A LITTLE PREWORK ON MY PART BUT IT IS WORTH IT FOR THE EXTRA PRACTICE AND FUN FOR THE KIDS.